[R] Generating a new matrix using rbinom and a matrix of probabilities.
Economics Guy
economics.guy at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 16:15:44 CET 2008
I am having a little trouble getting R to do something without writing
a couple of very awkward loops.
I have a matrix of probabilities and I want to generate a new matrix
of ones and zeros where each element in the new matrix is the result
of a draw from a binomial distribution where the probability of
getting a 1 is the corresponding element in the matrix of
probabilities.
Example Code:
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## First I generate the matrix of probabilities for example purposes.
probMatrix <- matrix(NA,5,5){
for (i in 1:5)
probVectorI <- runif(5,0,1)
probMatrix[i,] <- probVectorI
}
# Now I want to take each element in probMatrix and use it as the
probability parameter in rbinom draw and generate a new matrix.
Something like this:
binomialMatrix <- rbinom(1,1,probMatrix)
# But that does not work. I know I can run a loop across each vector
of the matrix, but this seems like an bad way to do this.
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So any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
EG
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